Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:38:29 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <391E57F5.524691A1@mindspring.com> References: <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <391DDB3E.8DFFD8D0@mindspring.com> <20000514041848.K22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513181415.00890300@mail85.pair.com> <20000514051809.N22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513194018.00898d80@mail85.pair.com> <20000514104553.A28453@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200005140612.XAA17820@sharmas.dhs.org>
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Arun Sharma wrote: > > Even Microsoft knows about this. Give away IE to increase demand for > other Microsoft software. But in a capitalist economy, free flow of > information is not an end in itself - it's the means to an end - > generating more revenue. > > Here's my free speech/freedom argument from a programmer's perspective: > > Programmers should have unrestricted freedom to pursue material > comforts. Giving away software is not incompatible with this freedom. > > What the BSD's need to do to divert programmer mindshare away from > the popular GPL theme, is effective delivery of the above message. Here is wisdom. Thanks Arun! Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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